{"id":3843,"date":"2011-03-25T04:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2011-03-25T04:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:06:51","slug":"ooda-and-strategy-making-process-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"OODA and &#8220;Strategy Making Process&#8221; for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" src=\"http:\/\/ar-images.tangentone.com.au\/images\/ar\/97818484\/9781848440449\/180\/270\/plain\/handbook-of-research-on-strategy-process.jpg\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1848440448\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1848440448\"><strong>Handbook of Research on Strategy Process<\/strong><\/a><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1848440448\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/strong>\u00a0by <strong>Pietro\u00a0\u00a0Mazzola<\/strong> and <strong>Franz W. Kellermans<\/strong>\u00a0(Ed.)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fasttransients.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Dr. Chet Richards<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fasttransients.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/02\/the-ooda-loop-a-new-strategic\/\">contributed to an important new theoretical book <\/a>on strategic applications to business enterprises. For those newer readers, Chet is an authoritative source on strategy, particularly the theories of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)\"><strong>Colonel John Boyd<\/strong> <\/a>and is the former proprietor of the late, great, strategy website <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dnipogo.org\/\">DNI<\/a><\/strong>. I have learned a great deal over the years from\u00a0Colonel Richards and heartily recommend his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1413453767?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1413453767\"><strong>Certain to Win<\/strong> <\/a>to anyone looking for the strategic edge.<\/p>\n<p>For readers with a corporate credit card or departmental budget\u00a0( the book is <strong><em>*really*<\/em><\/strong> expensive)\u00a0and a deep, academic\u00a0or professional\u00a0interest in strategic <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.org.uk\/\">theory<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shloky.com\/\">and<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/\">thinking<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rethinkingsecurity.typepad.com\/\">this<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/\">book<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/\">is<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thesalesblog.com\/\">for<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/\">you.<\/a> I may require Inter-Library Loan. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As Chet describes it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Deep stuff &#8211; very academic &#8211; but covers the waterfront of the research (i.e., as distinguished from the speculation) on the process of strategy.\u00a0 As the co-editors describe it:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While strategy content focuses on the subject of the decision, strategy process focuses on actual decision making and its associated actions.\u00a0 Strategy process research examines the process underpinning strategy formulation and implementation. &#8230; Although aimed primarily at the academic community, many of the contributions speak to a wider audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expensive, but if you&#8217;re into this sort of thing, probably indispensable<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handbook of Research on Strategy Process\u00a0by Pietro\u00a0\u00a0Mazzola and Franz W. Kellermans\u00a0(Ed.) Dr. Chet Richards\u00a0has contributed to an important new theoretical book on strategic applications to business enterprises. For those newer readers, Chet is an authoritative source on strategy, particularly the theories of Colonel John Boyd and is the former proprietor of the late, great, strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,46,82,337,24,277,60,332,525,78,336,436,558,381,481,127,318,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-analytic","category-business","category-chet-richards","category-cognition","category-corporations","category-dni","category-economics","category-epistemology","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-psychology","category-social-science","category-society","category-strategist","category-strategy","category-teaching","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}